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Monday, May 14th, 2012

Concert Review Sunday 13th May 2012
Place Sankt-Georgen-Kirche 23966 Wismar
NDR Sinfonieorchester conducted by Thomas Hengelbrock
Program -Schumann’s 3rd Symphony & Brahms 1st Symphony
The ‘Rolls Royce’ is in this case the NDR Sinfonieorchester and the venue the still being renovated huge and captivating space of the Sankt-Georgen-Kirche in the old Hansa city of Wismar in northern Germany – which unbeknown by most – [...] Continue Reading…
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Tuesday, April 17th, 2012

Mittwoch, 18.04.12 18.30 Uhr Kleiner Saal – Konzerthaus Berlin am Gendarmenmarkt
Jan Lisiecki Klavier
Johann Sebastian Bach Präludium und Fuge fis-Moll BWV 883 (“Wohltemperiertes Klavier”, II. Teil)
Ludwig van Beethoven Sonate Fis-Dur op. 78 Franz Liszt Trois etudes de concert
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy “Variations sérieuses” d-Moll op. 54
Der Kanadier Jan Lisiecki hat Klavierunterricht seit dem Alter von 5 Jahren – an der Universität Mount Royal Conservatory.
Mit [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: Carson Becke, CBC, CBC Radio in Kanada, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy "Variations sérieuses" d-Moll op. 54, Glenn Gould, http://www.berliner-klavierfestival.de/en/index.html, II. Teil), Jan Lisiecki Klavier, Johann Sebastian Bach Präludium und Fuge fis-Moll BWV 883 ("Wohltemperiertes Klavier", Kanadier Jan Lisiecki, Kleiner Saal - Konzerthaus Berlin am Gendarmenmarkt, Louis Lortie und Anton Kuerti, Ludwig van Beethoven Sonate Fis-Dur op. 78, Polnischen Rundfunk, Radio France, Universität Mount Royal Conservatory.
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Thursday, March 1st, 2012

Yesterday, ‘ARTE’ television showed a live performance made on February 10th, as part of the 2012 Berlinale International Film festivals reconstructed version of OCTOBER/OKTJABR , made in the then USSR in 1928, directed by Sergei Eisenstein.
The musical score was based on the original as composed by Edmund Meisel – the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra was conducted by Frank Strobel. [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: ARTE’ television, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Edmund Meisel, Frank Strobel, OCTOBER/OKTJABR, October: Ten Days That Shook the World, OKTJABR, Сергей Михайлович Эйзенштейн, “The Red Dream Factory”.
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2012

TALA GAISMA – FERNES LICHT
Violin – Monta Wermann
Viola – Avishai Chameides
Piano– Sorin Creciun
Programme
Mozart – Duet for Violin and Viola G-Dur
Bach – Sonate for Violine and Piano
Ernst Bloch – Nigun aus Baal Shem for solo Violin
Peteris Vasks – 1. Concerto for Violin and Chamber orchestra
This coming Friday the 17th February at 2030hrs there is a concerto for violin, viola, piano and chamber orchestra [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: 'Berlin Klavierabend', AUGUST FÖRSTER, August Forster Piano, Erard and Pleyel pianos berlin, Ernst Bloch - Nigun aus Baal Shem, Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica, Monta Wermann, op. 9, ota-berlin piano salon, Peteris Vasks - 1. Konzert für Violine und Kammerorchester, Piano Salon Christophori, Piano– Sorin Creciun, TALA GAISMA - FERNES LICHT, Viola – Avishai Chameides, What to do in Berlin 17th Feb. 2012
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

Johannes Brahms’ “Ein deutsches Requiem” for vocal Solists, mixed Choir and 2 pianos after the original score by Brahms
Musical Direction - Phillip Moll - 2Pianists - Phillip Moll and Philip Mayers
Soprano Marlis Petersen
Bariton Konrad Jarnot
with Rundfunkchor Berlin – Conductor Simon Halsey
Artistic assistance for rehersals from - Davide Camplani und Claudia de Serpa Soares
Staging by Brad Hwang
Lights Jörg Bittner and Thomas Herda
Brahms’ Requiem is [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: Bariton Konrad Jarnot, Brahms German Requiem Op. 45, Davide Camplani und Claudia de Serpa Soares, Gundola Janowitz greatest living soprano, Jochen Sandig, Jörg Bittner and Thomas Herda, Live Johannes Brahms in Berlin “Ein deutsches Requiem”, Phillip Moll and Philip Mayers, Radial System, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Sasha Waltz & Guests’, Simon Halsey, Soprano Marlis Petersen, Staging by Brad Hwang
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Sunday, February 5th, 2012

‘Klavierabend’ with
Daniel Seroussi
Schumann/Liszt -Widmung
Schubert/Liszt – Gretchen am Spinnrade
Schubert:
Allegro – Andantino – Scherzo: Allegro vivace – un poco piu lento
Rondo: Allegretto
F. Chopin – Ballade no.4 in f-moll, op. 52 & Klaviersonate in A-Dur, D.959
Schumann – Carnaval , op. 9
This coming Friday evening 10th February at 2030hrs, another great young pianist, [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: 'Berlin Klavierabend', AUGUST FÖRSTER, August Forster Piano, Daniel Seroussi, Erard and Pleyel pianos berlin, F. Chopin - Ballade no.4 in f-moll, op. 9, ota-berlin piano salon, Piano Salon Christophori, Schubert/Liszt - Gretchen am Spinnrade, Schumann - Carnaval, Schumann/Liszt -Widmung, What to do in Berlin 10th Feb. 2012
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Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
Chamber Music on a grande scale with……
Lea Birringer – Violin
Esther Birringer – Piano
Mozart: Sonate KV 305 A-Dur
Beethoven: Sonate op.12 Nr.3 Es-Dur
Hindemith: Sonate op.11 Nr.1 Es-Dur
Respighi: Sonate h-moll
Ottorino Respighi [1879 - 1936] – foto from Wikipedia
Lea will play a Violine made by Gianbattista Ceruti,
Cremona, circa 1800.
www.leabirringer.com
www.estherbirringer.com
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Friday, January 27th, 2012

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – baptized as – wait for it – Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart was born on the 27th January 1756 in Salzburg Austria – so Happy Birthday to Mister Mozart.
Below I have written a short account of Mozart’s journey late in his life to Berlin and follow that with the major part of a short biography of hime as [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: 27th January Mozart's birthday, Happy Birthday Mozart, Mozart Berlin, mozart in Berlin, Mozart travels to Berlin, Mozart's Journey to Berlin by Maynard Solomon, The Journal of Musicology
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Monday, January 23rd, 2012

The Chopin Projekt with Eugene Mursky
Played on historical instruments made by Erard und Pleyel
* Rondo c-moll, op. 1 (1825)
* Sonate Nr. 1 c-moll, op. 4 (1828)
Allegro Maestoso
Menuetto
Larghetto
Finale – Presto
* Drei Nocturnes op. 9 (b-moll, Es-Dur, H-Dur) (1830 – 32)
* Vier Mazurken op. 6 (fis-moll, cis-moll, E-Dur, es-moll) (1830 – 32)
* Polonaise As-Dur (1821)
* Polonaise As-Dur, op. 53 “Heroique” [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: "The Chopin Project" with Eugene Mursky, AUGUST FÖRSTER, Erard and Pleyel pianos berlin, Eugene Mursky, ota-berlin piano salon, Piano Salon Christophori, Stradivari, What to do in Berlin January 19th
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Monday, January 16th, 2012
Georgy Gromov
Plays the Piano music of Ludwig van Beethovens
The Sonata for Cello and Piano number II
Cellist Nikolai Solonovich - First violinist of the ’Moscow Soloists’
and Pianist Georgy Gromov
Dear Friends of the salon concerts, I would like to invite for the next week to an extraordinary concert this coming Thursday January the 19th at 2030 hrs – Beethoven Live in [...] Continue Reading…
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Saturday, January 14th, 2012

As a first live concert I have attended this year – this was a perfect choice and it is repeated this evening and tomorrow afternoon.
Take my advice- GO! You will not be dissapointed!
It consisted of a very well thought-out program of the Berlin ‘Koncerthausocherster’ and was both diversified and yet culturally -or if you like ‘Polishly’ -linked and called simply ‘Chopiniana’.
The orchestra [...] Continue Reading…
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